And people wonder why nobody is having kids anymore

Reminds me of Victorian times, when the UK had the best economy in the world and an empire covering 25% of the earth, but its government refused to help the masses of homeless and destitute people. If you were homeless, you could sleep in a coffin for a night by paying four pennies to the Salvation Army. Oh and child labor was rampant, with their lungs being decimated with coal dust. While a lot has changed since then, like the loss of empire, it would appear the British government's apathy to giving their citizens an adequate quality of life and living wage has stayed the same.

30% omg!!! Is that real or a joke? This is almost unbelievable

This is the same across most of the Anglosphere. This is what happens when you idolize and implement American style governance and economic policies for years.

Politicians know exactly what's happening. They have more than a clue. They don't care. That's what the British don't understand about their political class.

Trying to punish their own people for the inadequacies and lack of due diligence of the Tories And they wonder why they are not respected

The cost of living crisis in Australia is just as bad.

Living in London has been such a social shock for me. I feel like im constantly budgeting because it only takes a few finacial accidents to just be doomed. I graduated uni, moved to London for experience and opportunity and I will definitely not be here long because this city is made for the ultra rich, many not even being British! These people have amazing houses here and like another 4 house around the world. Its insane!

Par for the course with neoconservatives. The rich are more important to them. Just a question of of time until people finally have enough… and BOOM!

Now do adult poverty!

UK people still say that not having India as it’s colony is not a big deal. That’s the issue.

How can people in a democratic country choose one party in power for 14 years long? How can British choose Indian British to be both London mayor and Prime Minister?

Tax wealth and reduce the massive inequality in Britain - and the world. ;-)

Single mom alway forget to mention that they get child support. What scammers.

Okay 30% of children in the UK live in poverty, very sad, BUT have you seen some of the incredible massive and luxurious yachts friends and family members of the Conservative government have? They are incredible mind blowing!

If you think anything will improve under Labour you're sadly deluded....

Why does none of the news channels looks into insider trading between these politicians and the back hand multimillion deals that sees these politicians on the board of these companies 😂😂

As a conservative party they haven't really done a good job a preserving and conserving society and keep people safe and keeping their welfare intact ....

I am 72 years old and I know NOTHING will significantly change (for the better) until a significant change to the 'system' happens ..and the ONLY possible change 'big' enough to make any real difference would be to make it financially worthwhile for people to SHARE the jobs we would agree we NEED people to do and work much less. There would be no more unemployment, or any difficulty in finding a job, there would be no more bullshit or pointless jobs. Everyone would be sharing in doing something WE need.

Tories should be dissolved as a party to have fuked up this bad with 15 years of uninterrupted rule

In africa people live better life than this,but they always say africa is poor,ooooh my goodness time will tell.

Dang. That's really bad.

UK can only reminisce its colonial past. Without the loots from other people, UK can do squat.

The Brits are starting to wake up to the fact that without the empire and the EU, they’re pretty much just a small, relatively developed island in the North Atlantic. Carry on - geography is a powerful force should you choose to continue ignoring it.

How can nations have billions to support war, but no money to help their own people in the country? Is my biggest riddle

UK being its size allowing such a thing to occur is so damn baffling

Greenwich is one of the poorest?????!?!? WHAT

But wasn't Britain going to see glory days after they voted for Brexit?

UK(51st state) don't have own foreign policy. All countries that need to follow the empire foreign policy, economy are mess up.

thank you DW for this segment something that many just don't even know about in our own country the numbers are disgusting, im from the stockton area north east England since 2010 the crime rate, drug overdose, depression even our town centre as been turned into rubble with many shops closed, most pavements, walkways are filthy to walk on the whole area is flooded with honeless drug addicts, fights every other day you witness, there's kids killing each other, shops closed down with windows smashed the pollution in the air is horrible and there's many people with dogs who simply don't clean up after thier on dog it's shocking! the crime rate is the highest in the country North East, it doest help when the Tories cut the police force into nothing from the 1st minute of office in 2010..

All the money is being spent on rent, energy and food. But where is that money going? Shouldn’t it be cycling through the economy? “Follow the money” is cliché, but oh so worth looking into.

With the economic recovery of China, ASEAN and India most of west will slowly fall into poverty. Countries without oil exports will suffer the most. Changing politicians will hardly have any effect.

So, if you leave the toffs in charge the 'lower class' get poorer. Nobody should be surprised.

Modern Day Conservatism, is not genuine Conservatism. Older Conservatism came with moral and social obligations, now it just means preserving a very particular kimd of capitalism. So, that name should lapse.

Dying to live

Where has everything gone wrong ? Same Bull💩happening here in Australia 🙃

How do you define child poverty not being able to cloth, feed, and keep your child warm is my idea of child poverty

So, I would like to know how many of these children in poverty come from recent immigrants.

What makes me so frustrated is there's no good reason for this level of poverty to exist in the UK. There are countries around the world where one can understand the social, economic and political issues that lead to poverty but the UK has just been captured by the ultra-wealthy at the expense of ordinary people. Unfortunately Brits will continue bickering about so-called "culture war" issues rather than addressing the glaring elephant in the room of wealth inequality and corruption. We are so cooked. Germans watching this, don't let this happen to your country next.

None is willing to address ( elephant inthe room) illegal immigrants who r liabilities on britian😢

What is "child poverty"? Poor children, rich parents? How so?

Greenwich is far from poor.... did you mean Lewisham, Deptford or Catford?

Children are the future. The UK is a future developing country 😅😅😅

Which means their parents are also in poverty? So, 30% of Brits are in poverty?

Winter is hard, and I can't afford to tune on the heater.

Capitalism alone only has one outcome... economic inequality!

For clarity. The number of children living in poverty using the same method of reporting as Europe, shows numbers about the same as Europe. Around 22%. DW has cherry picked a specific dataset, where adjustments were made to the % due to housing costs. Which is NOT how Europe reports their poverty rates. DW has specifically selected the specific method of reporting that fits their narrative.

30% is absolutely ridiculous for a rich nation. Smh

lol…Sunak able to relate not having Netflix in schooldays. WTF

Pathetic, the uk government has much to answer for

People are having fewer children, leading to a declining workforce. To address this, politicians are accepting more immigrants. However, many immigrants struggle to find jobs and rely on welfare. To sustain welfare, taxes are increased, raising living costs. As a result, people continue to have fewer children, creating a repeating cycle.

Shameless BBC will not show this Superpooper pestern world

🤣AND UK lecture HK everyday

How can we fix it??? 😭

Politicians are disconnected from a layman. Career politicians fail and face no sanctions

If only there were a way to strengthen business, increase our market reach, decrease trade barriers. Guess it's impossible...

Britain thinks economics would be improved by working with G7 countries is ridiculous.

This is definitely happening in America too, such a high increasing in cost of living, is this also happening in the Eastern countries too? Middle East asia etc?

A G7 country with this level of poverty!! 🤮🤮🤮🤮

Wow UK 🇬🇧 what happened

Ill wait an see. Actions speak louder than words 💯

Indeed Keir Starmer's dad was a tool maker 😂

Things are going to be far worse,,,,,, just wait.

70% of children do not live in poverty though

That is not Greenwich! Greenwich is a really nice area with expensive properties and a beautiful park! The area in this report might be Lewisham or another area in South London.

gary's economics man. guy called it a year ago and this idea of not taxing the rich to reduce wealth inequality was something he said the labor party might do b/c they're under the control of capital.

14yrs of austerity tends to do that when social services r being slashed while ur politians r so rich that they have never even seen proverty

so true at 1:08

We are going to the dogs sunak hasnt a clue get him out he is humiliating us the people

Inexcusable. Despicable.

No, of course not. We either get jam tomorrow or in your face austerity.

Living on Rent is a Half-Life, i prefer living in a fraking caravan instead... We are blessed in Bulgaria that we own our properties from communist time....

We call on the Chinese government to stop creating social inequality! Discrimination against 1.4 billion people's rights to speak!

The most obvious thing to do to improve the economy is to join the EU. I doubt they will, so looks like they will become like Argentina.

There are several things Labour can do immediately to reduce income inequality via taxation. (1) Raise the personal income tax allowance and link it to inflation (2) Raise income tax thresholds and also link them to inflation (3) Tax capital gains the same as Income (4) Remove the pension triple lock, but instead link pensions to inflation

Cutting taxes to combat inflation is like screwing for virginity.

Stewart Lansley with the facts.

To be clear the child poverty levels are significantly lower in Scotland thanks to policies put in place by the Scottish government.

Can they talk with real poor people? Why real poors are ignored in the interviews?

It's happening anywhere not only UK .. bcuz of inflation 😢... it's terrible......all Europe struggling ...

The very nature of the UK political system prevents anyone with 'transformative policies' (whatever that means) from reaching power.

Poverty UK 😢😢

Its really sad that India is not a colony of the UK anymore. Removal of colonization is not a sad state of affairs for India ofcourse, but the removal of colonization is indeed a bad event for the UK.

Personal responsibility goes a long way too. I have been relatively ok living in the United States - because I was smart enough to not father any children. When you are stretching your paycheck, when you are paying rent, it is probably not a good idea to have children. Gotta be financially secure first before you even think about having kids. I am more financially secure these days, but I still feel I may struggle if I have kids. Of course, if one has stability today, it's important to keep in mind that this stability is not certain. In my life, I witnesses a few great disruptions: 1) collapse of the USSR as a kid (where I am from originally); 2) long-term struggle in the aftermath. 3) Right after moving to the United States I saw the 2008 economic crisis and a few more years of struggle. 4) The virus and its economic aftermath manifesting in inflation. I do not wanna blame politicians from this or that party - disruptions happen and it is hard to adapt. My point is that one needs to ensure that he or she has both some reserve capital and valuable skills to survive and thrive not only in good times but also in bad times.

Poverty in the UK is when your family earn less than 3000 pounds But government makes sure that every family has these 3000 pounds. Well the rent can be like from 1400 to 1800 pounds... No country in the world can pay enough money to rent an apartment for free, only UK does that. Let's be honest they are not poor, they were forced into laziness. It is easier to stay at home and get nearly the same amount of money from the state. These transfers push the inflation, and of course it cannot last forever... One day or another people would face the consequences

The Party against the People.👍👍👍😭😭😭

Shame there isn’t a land of economic opportunity where people could migrate to

0:50 SHES ENGLISH TOO!!! Word on the street is the fire in your heart is out

now that's not wealth inequality is it oh no its fraternity among rich and poor isn't it

30% of all children in the UK, "were living in relative low-income households" Is the exact report headline. This number is skewed by single parent families... becoming normalised. Remember, the UK has a very large population of disenfranchised individuals. The delicate fabric of your society is being eroded away. Tradition, religion and nationalism don't exist anymore... as forms of societal glue. Today in the UK one in five people are disabled. One in five adolescents have severe mental health issues. The list of issues with 'those forgotten'... is becoming endless. You're living in a meaningless society, where the educated ( societies most important group ) are obsessed with individual wealth accumulation. For those where this is not a possibility. Their society is simply meaningless.

Competent? Keir Starmer? You must be joking! You must do your research before reporting!

Well done. Keep supporting Ukraine

Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson , show their true face. "If Ukraine loses in the NATO proxy war with Russia, it will be the end of Western hegemony” --> They don't care about Youkrain people. And Boris still pushing the war to continue.. The vast majority of the world has not joined the West in its new cold war on Russia. Two former US diplomats published an article in Newsweek in 2022 lamenting that, “While the United States and its closest allies in Europe and Asia have imposed tough economic sanctions on Moscow, 87 percent of the world’s population has declined to follow us”. It is only the Global North, or the collective West, that has imposed sanctions on Russia: North America, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, and the US allies in Japan, South Korea, and China’s Taiwan province (which is governed by pro-Western political forces).

" A country gets the govt it deserves " .....Desaix

But U.K. is a free country!

Inflation is not coming down from a 41 year high. Recent inflation rates were highest in 2022 at 9.2%. The inflation rate was 9.2% in 1990 which is 34 years ago and not 41 years. The upward swing in inflation from 2020 follows the European trend which hit 8,83% in 2022 before dropping back down. It's currently 2,4% in the Euro area compared to 2.8% in the UK. The current US inflation rate is 3.3%. The 30% figure is relative poverty after housing costs have been taken into account before housing costs it's 22% of children live in relative poverty. The UK figures are relative poverty that is where the income is under 60% of the median income for that year. Relative poverty captures the share of people whose income is low by the standards typical in their own country. Comparing these figures to the EU - the EU average is 24.7% - at national levels this figure ranges from 41.5% in Romania down to 10.3% in Slovenia. What I do find perplexing and is how we have people barely surviving on income from 2 jobs yet there are hundreds of thousands of normal working class people going off to the Euros and spending hundreds of pounds, a sold out Glastonbury weekend with a capacity of 210,000 with tickets priced at £366, there are hundreds of thousands attending the 15 Taylor Swift concerts and passenger traffic at UK airports is nearly back to pre-Covid levels. This sort of expenditure does not scream of destitution. We live in a global economy. The cost of living crisis and the housing crisis is global. The same issues brought up in this report are happening in every developed country in the world.

And in the end they shall be led by children.

I thought poverty affects only countries in South Asia or Africa.Though there is big difference in Per capita income in poor countries and an advanced economy like UK yet poverty bites the have nots every where. And politicians have to be more empathetic towards poor

Why the choice is only between these 2 guys? Yes, I know, we also have LibDems and Green. But surely Starmer or Sunak is a very poor and depressing choice to be made...

Meanwhile, look at the list of rich young aristocrats with billions of inheritance. They do nothing for their own country or people but just being rich by inheritance. Something is wrong.